different between doge vs duke

English

Etymology 1

From Venetian or Italian doge, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux (“leader, prince”). Doublet of duke and dux.

Alternative forms

• Doge

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??d?/, /d???/, /?d??.d?e?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /do?d?/, /do??/, /?do?.d?e?/
• Rhymes: -??d?, -???

Noun

doge (plural doges or dogi)

1. (historical) The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
   • 1797, John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, page 62

     In the thirteenth century, a new method of appointing the doge, by the famous ballot of Venice, a complicated mixture of choice and chance, was adopted.

   • 1982, John Julius Norwich, A History of Venice, chapter 34, page 346

     This reply was one of the first important pronouncements to be made by Antonio Grimani, who on 6 July had been elected seventy-fourth Doge of Venice in succession to Leonardo Loredan.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:doge.

Derived terms

• dogedom
• dogeless
• dogeship

Related terms

• dogaressa

Translations

Etymology 2

From dog. First attested in the 2005 episode Biz Cas Fri 1 from Homestar Runner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??d?/, /d???/, /d???/, (also) /?d??i/

Noun

doge (plural doges)

1. (Internet slang, humorous) A dog.
3. (Internet slang, humorous) Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme.

Derived terms

• dogecoin

Translations

Further reading

• doge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• doge (meme) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• goed

Finnish

Noun

doge

1. doge

Declension

In genitive plural, non-standard dogien seems to be the most commonly used form.

French

Etymology

From Venetian doge, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux (“leader, prince”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/

Noun

doge m (plural doges)

1. doge
   • 1833, Julie de Quérangal, Philippe de Morvelle, Revue des Deux Mondes, T.2,4

     Non pas, non pas, cria-t-on de tous côtés ; il y a encore Venise. - Venise la reine des mers ! - Le lion de Saint-Marc ! - Le Bucentaure ! - Le doge ! - Quel homme qu'un doge ! […]

References

• Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, huitième édition, 1932-1935

Further reading

• “doge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• gode

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetian Doxe, from Latin dux, ducem (“leader, prince”). See also the likewise borrowed doublets duce and duca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.d??e/

Noun

doge m (plural dogi)

1. doge

Related terms

• dogado

References

Anagrams

• gode, godé

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• (dogè) IPA^(key): [do????]
• (dòge) IPA^(key): [?do???]

Noun

dogè m

1. locative singular of dogas

Noun

dòge m

1. vocative singular of dogas

Portuguese

Noun

doge m (plural doges)

1. (historical) doge (chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa)

Volapük

Noun

doge

1. dative singular of dog

English

Etymology

From Old French duc, through Middle English duke, from Latin dux, ducis. Displaced native Old English heretoga. Was present as duc in late Old English, from the same Latin source. Doublet of dux and doge.

The “fist” sense is thought to be Cockney rhyming slang where “Duke(s) of York” = fork. Fork is itself cockney slang for hand, and thus fist.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dju?k/, /d?u?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d(j)u?k/
• Rhymes: -u?k
• Homophone: juke (with yod coalescence)

Noun

duke (plural dukes)

1. The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
2. The sovereign of a small state.
3. A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.

   Hypernyms: title, holder

   Coordinate terms: baron, count, countess, earl, marquis, marquess, viscount, prince, monarch

4. A grand duke.
5. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Bassarona and Dophla.
6. (slang, usually in the plural) A fist.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

duke (third-person singular simple present dukes, present participle duking, simple past and past participle duked)

1. (transitive, informal) To hit or beat with the fists.
2. (slang, transitive) To give cash to; to give a tip to.

   Synonym: tip

Derived terms

References

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?duk?]

Particle

duke

1. A particle which precedes a participle to form a gerundive adverbial phrase.

   duke kënduar — (while) singing, by singing

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish duque (“duke”).

Noun

duke

1. duke

Middle English

Alternative forms

• duk, duc, duyk, doyk, dug

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French duc, from Latin dux.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diu?k/

Noun

duke (plural dukes)

1. leader, guide, commander, boss
2. noble, lord
3. duke (rank of nobility)

Related terms

• duchesse
• dukedom
• duche

Descendants

• English: duke
• Scots: duik, duke

References

• “d?k, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

Scots

Verb

duke (third-person singular present dukes, present participle dukin, past dukit, past participle dukit)

1. to cut into a queue, without permission (intransitive); to cut into a queue in front of someone (transitive)

   Oi, dinnae duke us!

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish duque (“duke”).

Noun

duke

1. duke